Library Web Apps and Mobile Apps

[Leo Robert Klein]

Well, I can absolutely see the need to make our content 
'mobile-friendly'*.  I just don't see how 'mobile-friendly' translates 
into obliging people to download a site-specific 'app' just to access 
the content.

That's where I'm wondering what the traffic and usage is.  I mean, if I 
had it my way, we'd simply send someone a bookmark and call it an 'app'.

LEO

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* Using such 'built-in' tools as HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, etc.

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On 11/14/2011 1:36 PM, Louise Alcorn wrote:
> I would add to Thomas’s comment that our integrated library systems
> (ILS) may or may not be providing these mobile (as in phone/mobile
> device) app-based interfaces to our library catalogs, databases and
> more, so many of us are looking at options to make an “older” ILS or
> other offerings more mobile-friendly and (perhaps more to the point)
> more integrated with each other. If we don’t, the research (Pew, etc.)
> shows, we’ll lose the under-30 crowd entirely pretty soon. Heck, we’ll
> lose the over-30 crowd, too. Our patrons, esp. busy parents, want to do
> everything with their phone on their own schedule.
>
> My 2 cents.

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2011-11-14